'We have a couple of extra sailmakers to help get our sails done, and a couple of extra boat builders to get the work done.

'The guys worked very late last night and all the teams are doing the same thing.

'We’re all going to make the starting line somehow.'

Telefónica shore team manager Horacio Carabelli said his crew had their jobs list under control despite it growing to around 70 items.

'We have quite a good amount of work to be done,' he said. 'Small things have appeared during our checks of the boat.

'Our ultrasound guy Stefano is checking the structure and hopefully he doesn’t come up with anything new.

'At the moment everything is under control and the only issue is the weather – we really need some good weather to fix what we have to do.'

With just four days until the action kicks off again in Auckland with the Pro-Am, the pressure is on – but with a Southern Ocean leg coming up, the shore crews can’t let any problems to slip under their radar.

'We are extremely diligent in what we have been looking at,' Sanya’s shore team manager Nick Bice said.

'We know the exact areas to look at within the boat and we’ll do a full ultrasound of the boat as well, just to make sure that everything’s there and we can sleep at night while they’re in the middle of the Southern Ocean.'

The DHL Shore Crew Award for leg four will be presented to the winning shore team at the leg four prize giving on Thursday March 15.